Stone, Charles Pomeroy

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Charles Pomeroy Stone
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    2
    No. of Children
    6
    Family
    Alpheus Fletcher Stone (father), Fanny Cushing (mother), Maria Clary Stone (first wife, 1853), Jeanne Stone Stone (second wife, 1863)
    Education
    West Point (US Military Academy)
    Occupation
    Military
    Other
    Other Occupation
    Surveyor, Civil Engineer
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)
    Union Army
    Foreign military

    Charles Pomeroy Stone (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    Stone was the most celebrated example of a high-ranking Democrat who ran afoul of the administration that supervised the Union war effort. His relations with the White House and the Congress, initially strong, were quickly weakened by his imperious demeanor, his disdain of volunteer troops, his impolitic associations with the enemies of his government, and a rather cavalier attitude toward his civilian superiors. For all that, Stone appears to have been a conscientious soldier dedicated to preserving the Union. Certainly the government's decision to hold him for six months without charges and upon evidence too flimsy to withstand legal scrutiny was not only unconscionable but unsustainable under either the Constitution or the Articles of War.
    Edward G. Longacre, "Stone, Charles Pomeroy," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/05/05-00748.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Stone, Charles Pomeroy," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/12767.